Cyrus the Great was King of Persia and was used by God to free the Jewish people. Cyrus was in Bible prophecy 200 years before God used him and is mentioned in the Bible 22 times. As was the ...

Under Cyrus, the Persian Empire became the hegemonic power in the East. Despite beginning his reign as a vassal king subject to the Median Empire, which he would later conquer, Cyrus was fierce ...

But Isaiah 45:1 is pretty explicit that the “anointed one” of God is actually Cyrus, the non-Jewish Persian king. An article in Harvard Theological Review by Lisbeth Fried, for example ...

When crowned king of Persia in 559 B.C., Cyrus II was little more than a tribal leader of the Parsua (Persian) people who lived in the south of present-day Iran. The latest ruler in the ...

seemed quizzical and exhausted, taking on the air of a mournful beagle. Cyrus was a king of Persia who invaded territory controlled by the Scythians, nomadic folks who migrated from central Russia ...

matching Trump with the Persian King Cyrus the Great. After Cyrus and his Persian armies conquered the Babylonian Empire, ...

The 2,600-year-old clay cylinder, almost the size of an American football, was made on the order of the Persian King Cyrus after he captured Babylon in 539 BC. Referred to by some scholars as the ...

Cyrus, born around 600 BCE, had a more legendary origin, shrouded in myth and mystery. As the son of Cambyses[a], king of Persia, and grandson of Astyages, king of Media, his birth was marked by ...

Trump.” This was not the first comparison of a US president to the Persian king. President Truman was the first when he actually compared himself to Cyrus. Introduced at a dinner by his friend ...

He refers to Trump in sermons and at rallies as a modern version of the 6th Century BCE Persian king Cyrus. "Thus says the Lord to Cyrus, whom I've anointed," says Wallnau in a video posted online.